Passover Prayers Set for Soviet Jews (April 8, 1971)

by Richard PhilbrickNorthApr 8, 1971

Preparing Seder for Passover

Lisa Levine, a kindergartener in the Arie Crown Hebrew day school, completes the Seder tray as her class prepares for Passover. The Jewish celebration is an annual feast to corn sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt when God destroyed

the Egyptians' first-born.

Passover Prayers

Set for Soviet

Jews

BY RICHARD PlHILIIIUCK

The status of Jews in the Sovict Union and In other parts of the world will be made vivid in the observance of Passover to begin at sunset tomorrow in and Jewish homes.

For more than 3,000 years Passover has been celebrated by Jews as their festival of redemption drawing its significance from their ancestors' ex- odus from Egypt in ancient times. The freedom the Hebrews won for them- selves then has been the byword of the holiday ever since.

This year the American Jewish Committee and other Jewish organiza- tions have asked that Passover be marked with prayers for the three million Jews in Russia. The committee has published a "Model Freedom Seder Service" to make a response to the request easier.

Seder Supper Highlight

The service will supplement the traditions and symbolism that has become associated with Passover thru

the centuries.

One of the highlights of the holiday, which is observed for eight days by Conservative and Orthodox Jews and for seven days by Reform Jews, is the Seder meal. During the Seder, meaning order of service, the story of the exodus from Egypt is told, prayers are said, songs are sung, and matzos, an unleavened bread, is eaten.

The bread is a reminder that during the flight from Egypt the Hebrews had no chance to let bread rise. Dishes such as bitter herbs remind diners of other aspects of the holiday.

List Congregation Services

Passover services will be held at 6 p.m. tomorrow and at 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in Skokie Valley Traditional Synagog, 8825 E. Prairie Rd., Skokie.

Congregation KINS of West Rogers

Park, 2800 W. North Shore Av., will hold services at 6 p.m. tomorrow and Saturday and at 8:30 Saturday and Sunday mornings. Other services will be held each day thruout the holiday.

The members of Beth Torah Congre- gation, 9200 S. Vanderpoel Av., will begin their observance of Passover at a vesper service at 5:15 p.m. tomorrow in their temple. Families will have the first of two Seder meals in their homes tomorrow night. The congregational Seder will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday in the temple.

A brief vesper service will be conducted before the congregational seder of Temple Menorah to be served at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow in the temple, 2800 Sherwin Av; A family worship service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday.